(1/4) I have spent a little time with the supplementary volumes of the «Corpus orationum» this evening, to make a rough calculation of how many prayers from the EF Missal made it into the OF Missal.
The most generous figure I can come up with is 616 out of 1206 prayers = 51.1%
The most generous figure I can come up with is 616 out of 1206 prayers = 51.1%
https://twitter.com/M_P_Hazell/status/1363572814259830789
(2/4) I have checked the sources for all the Collects, Prayers over the Offerings, Postcommunions, Prayers over the People, and other orations (e.g. Good Fri intercessions) in every section of the 2008 Missal (Propers, Commons, Ritual, Votive, VNO, etc.), including appendices.
(3/4) In the 616 prayers sourced from or contained in the EF, I have also included the 184 that were "centonised", i.e. for which parts were taken and combined with other texts to make essentially new prayers. (The figure drops to 35.8% if we exclude these.)
(4/4) So, I have absolutely no idea how Archbishop Roche can say that "ninety percent of the texts" from the 1962 Missal are used in the Ordinary Form. This seems to be, at best, a wild exaggeration of the facts - and IMO such fanciful claims do not reflect well on the CDWDS.
(Addendum: I am, of course, more than happy to be corrected if anyone wishes to contend my figures, or can suggest how His Grace may have got to his 90% statistic.)
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